"ONE MILLION AMERICA'S HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DROPOUT EVERY SCHOOL YEAR"

The free public education that is mandatory is the legal and the constitutional rights of all American children until they attain the adulthood age of 18 years. The public education is the strongest and the most effective equalizer in the American society today that can effectively project the sons or the daughters of the poorest American citizens to become today's college educated, trade school or technically skillful professionals and then become the part and the parcel of the American Dream. Today in America, about 7,000 students a day or an estimated 1 million students a year dropout of our failing high schools without getting their high school diplomas. Majority of these dropouts are the minority students who are mainly from the nation's poorest families. The national educational statistics of these dropouts show that about 5% of them or 50,000 dropouts will go back to take the alternative route of getting the high school diploma equivalent in America that is known as the GED.

Why are these students failing to graduates on time or not at all? Why are about 2,000 high schools failing academically today and are now directly producing or responsible for about 80% of the nation's high school dropouts every year in America? Why are the public inner city high schools failing these students in America today? What are the economic impacts and the social challenges that these dropouts put on the America's tax payers and on the future of this nation? Can America manpower needs remain sufficient and also very competitive with the rest of the advanced and the emerging nations today in the midst of the ocean of dropouts? Who has the right answers or solutions to this huge academic crisis in America today? Who can truly solve this dropout crisis amongst the following stakeholders:the public elected officials, local school districts, parents, school administrators and teachers, teachers' unions or the students? Can this huge national academic crisis even be solved when one group of stakeholders are busy scapegoating another group of stakeholders as the culprits and the sacrificial lamb?

The high school dropouts who refuse to do and to pass the GED are faced with three possibilities in their life in America. The first possibility is the life of poverty, unemployment, poor paying jobs or wages. The second outcome is for these dropouts to depend on the government welfare programs that are designed for the poor for the rest of their life at the expense of the America's tax payers. The last consequence is for these dropouts to take to a life of crimes and illegalities that will eventually put them in and out or permanently in the already overcrowded and the tax-sucking prison systems in America.